Title: Journal d'un Missionaire au Texas et au Mexique Author: Domenech, Emmanuel Place: Paris Publisher: Librairie de Gaume Freres Date: 1857 Description: xii, 477, [1] pp. With hand-colored folding map. (8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5") quarter calf and mottled boards, gilt ruled spine, spine label lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, speckled edges. First Edition. An important book by a Catholic missionary describing early Texas. According to 'Texas Online', "He published many repetitious, exaggerated, and self-glorifying accounts of his experiences and travels, but his colorfully detailed narrative of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in Texas, amid the tensions of boundary disputes with Mexico and the devastation of an epidemic of cholera, has no counterpart." This French edition preceded the English translation by a year. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to binding with some rubbing to edges and spine; 2" repaired closed tear at stub of map, interior bright; very good. Item number: 284797
Title: Journal d'un Missionaire au Texas et au Mexique Author: Domenech, Emmanuel Place: Paris Publisher: Librairie de Gaume Freres Date: 1857 Description: xii, 477, [1] pp. With hand-colored folding map. (8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5") quarter calf and mottled boards, gilt ruled spine, spine label lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, speckled edges. First Edition. An important book by a Catholic missionary describing early Texas. According to 'Texas Online', "He published many repetitious, exaggerated, and self-glorifying accounts of his experiences and travels, but his colorfully detailed narrative of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in Texas, amid the tensions of boundary disputes with Mexico and the devastation of an epidemic of cholera, has no counterpart." This French edition preceded the English translation by a year. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to binding with some rubbing to edges and spine; 2" repaired closed tear at stub of map, interior bright; very good. Item number: 284797
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